Improve the alignment between the Wikimedia movement's strategy and spending;

Support greater impact and progress towards achieving shared goals; and

Enable all parts of the movement to learn how to achieve shared goals better and faster.

Funded activities should align with the movement's strategic priorities, must be consistent with the WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, must be reported to WMF, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement. The WMF mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

Each entity that receives FDC funding will need to complete this report on a quarterly basis, which seeks to determine how the funding received by the entity is leading towards these goals. The information you provide will help us to:

Ensure accountability over how the money was spent. The FDC distributes "general funds", for both ongoing and programmatic expenses; these funds can be spent as the entity best sees fit to accomplish its stated goals. Therefore, although line-item expenses are not expected to be exactly as outlined in the entity's proposal, the FDC wants to ensure that money was spent in a way that led to movement goals.

Assess the performance of the entity over the course of the funded period against the stated objectives in the entity's annual plan.

Identify lessons learned, in terms of both what the entity learned that could benefit the broader movement, and how the entity used movement-wide best practices to accomplish its stated objectives.

The purpose of this section is to provide a brief overview of this report. Please use no more than 1-2 paragraphs to address the questions outlined below. You will have an opportunity to address these questions in detail elsewhere in this report.

CHANGES: Please describe how you changed your plans and budget based on the FDC allocation approved by the Board in December 2012, and your rationale for these changes. You can then use the changed plans and budget as the basis on which to report back on the first quarter.

As the round 1 FDC allocation was a bridge funding until round 2, it would be quite lengthy to go through all the changes we made line by line. If you need more details, you can find on our post round 1 reviewed budget for the period from mid November to end of Q2. As an overview, we postponed to after the FDC round 2 any new project, and all recruitements as well (save the administrative assistant). The programmatic budget were sized down to their bare minimum. We removed all planned fundings to support international Wikimedia events (such as the Wikimedia Conference or Wikimania). Regarding Wikimania, we sized down the number of Wikimedia France official representatives to 4 persons plus up to 5 members (as a comparison we had 3 time this year budget last year to support editors to go to Wikimania). The following report is based on our new budget but we tried to use our round 1 proposal basis to makes its reading and comparison with the proposal easier.

HIGHLIGHTS: What were 1–2 important highlights of the past quarter? (These may include successes, challenges, lessons learned.)

Public Domain Day : successful event, with good collaboration with french partners such as the local OKFN reps. Over 80 attendees, a good outreach event to help people understand what is Public Domain.

WIKI-FOCUS: What Wikimedia projects was your entity focused on (e.g., Wiki Commons, French Wiktionary) this quarter?

French Wikipedia : Training sessions targeted toward several different types of new contributors, development of the Framakey-Wikipedia (Wikipedia offline on a USB stick made available online and in some libraries)

Wikimedia Commons : Many uploads from people that benefited of support from Wikimedia France (media accreditations, photo equipment, photo parties) ; a new mass-upload project (the Ancely collection), improvement of the categorization and metrics for photos "supported by Wikimedia France"

GROWTH: How did your entity grow over the past quarter vs. the previous quarter (e.g., Number of active editors reached/involved/added, number of articles created, number of events held, number of partipants reached through workshops)?

Regarding new contributors

Number of new contributors (thanks to Wikimedia France programs): around 400

Number of new articles created : around 200 on fr:WP

Number of files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons by new contributors: more than 100

Total volume of edits : around 1 Mo

About enrichment of Wikimedia content by wikimedians thanks to Wikimedia France

Number of files uploaded "supported by Wikimedia France": around 4,000

The FDC requires information about how your entity received and spent money over the past year. The FDC distributes general funds, so your entity is not required to use funds exactly as outlined in the proposal. While line-item expenses will not be examined, the FDC and movement wants to understand why the entity spent money in the way it did. If variance in budgeted vs. actual is greater than 20%, please provide explanation in more detail. This helps the FDC understand the rationale behind any significant changes. Note that any changes from the Grant proposal, among other things, must be consistent with the WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, must be reported to WMF, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement. The WMF mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

Table 2Please report all spending in local currency unless US$ is requested.

Please include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.

Revenue source

Currency

Anticipated

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Cumulative

Anticipated ($US)*

Cumulative ($US)*

Explanation of variances from plan

FDC allocation

Euro (€)

73,800

73,800

73,800

96,309

96,309

Due to exchange rate changes, the USD amount is slightly above than when the allocation was approved in November. We transfered the EUR defined during the Round 1

Table 3Please report all spending in local currency unless US$ is requested.

(The "budgeted" column should reflect the total anticipated for the year, the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year, and the "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative over against the budgeted.)

Expense

Currency

Budgeted

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Cumulative

Budgeted ($US)*

Cumulative ($US)*

Percentage spent to date

Explanation of variances from plan

Francophonie and Languages

Euro (€)

19,300

2,133

2,133

25,186

2,783

2nd deployment of Afripedia planned for Q2

GLAM

Euro (€)

10,000

802

802

13,050

1,047

We have found solutions for free-of-charges training sessions and events. More expenses planned for Q2.

Community

Euro (€)

5,875

1,981

1,981

7,666

2,585.21

Communication and pedagogical material

Euro (€)

4,700

1,100

1,100

6,133

1,435

We are working on new material (bookshelfs, annual report), expenses planned for Q2.

Europeana

Euro (€)

30,000

30,000

30,000

39,150

39,150

All expenses were planned for Q1.

Research and Education

Euro (€)

8,500

182

182

11,092

238

Projects to be funded during Q2 (Research award, Wikiconcours)

Semanticpedia

Euro (€)

18,500

0

0

24,142

0

Projects to be funded during Q2

Wikimania

Euro (€)

10,000

0

0

13,050

0

Planned for Q2

Functionning

Euro (€)

67,500

33,754

33,754

88,087.50

44,048

Fundraising

Euro (€)

31,000

40,412

40,412

40,455

52,737

2012 fundraising was much more efficient than expected. Though this is a good thing it generated extra cost, especially in managing the influx of cheques we received.

This section addresses the impact of the programs / initiatives* and objectives your entity has implemented over the past quarter and the progress your entity is making toward meeting this year's goals. We understand that some metrics may not be applicable in this quarterly report, so please add metrics here if they are applicable.

*In the last round, the FDC used the term 'initiative', but this round, we are using the term 'program.'

Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?

Wikimédia France Research Award :

30 votes from selected articles by the jury

2 blog posts for the announcement of the selected papers

delay on the announcement of the winner: done on April 29th

Partnership with Société Française d'Écologie (planned for September 2013)

delayed during the kick-off meeting, planned for September 2013

Work with academic world :

planning of several trainings with researchers working groups (planned for September 2013)

Activities conducted.

Wikimédia France Research Award

What worked and what did not?

We have fallen behind the Wikimedia France Research Award planning and very few community members voted on selected papers by the jury, mainly due to a lack of communication and interest for the whole community on this project.

What is planned for later this year:

co-planification to participate at a study day dedicated to Wikipedia and the science (on the right track)

pre-launching of AMCSTI partnership in order to encourage scientific literacy actors to contribute on Wikipedia (on the right track)

Training sessions were not very successfull because of brevity of the sessions

We due to not organize some training sessions for GLAM institutions because of lack of time from GLAM institutions and us (lack of time and funds to recruite new staff)

Conferences are very successfull : we were invited in the most important annual conference about museums, culture and innovation in France to present GLAM projects for + 300 people with several testimonies by GLAM already involved in GLAM projects with us

Mass upload projects are very difficult because of a lot of work needed by few volunteers able to prepare quality uploads.

Public Domain Day was a very successful project, conducted with OKFN France. We had more people than last year and a lot of speakers and artists to promote Public Domain and remix of Public Domain

Phœbus project continues to be successfull. The facts that the POTY was made because of this project was very pleasant for volunteers involved in the project

Develop offline access to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects thanks to Wi-Fi networks without Internet connexion. Offline access is shared with a "plug computer" which creates Wi-Fi network. This network shares Wikipedia through the Kiwix software. The project is made with help and support from the Kiwix team, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and the Institut Français.

Using the opportunity of this offline deployment where Internet access is rare and expensive, to train people to well use Wikipedia offline, and to contribute on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects using the poor local connexion, to give them all the keys to become contributors and leaders of the future Wikimedian communities.

Events and workshops in partnership with institutions and communities to present Wikipedia and promote contribution ; creation of new Wikipedia in local languages ; progression of contributions in Wikipedia already active

Realization of a francophone newsletter about the Wikimedia projects (inspired by The Signpost and the French Regards sur l'Actualité de Wikipédia) ;

Coordination to promote the projects outside the Wikimedia world (eg. international organization of Francophonie) ;

Help and sustain to create new chapters in French-speaking countries (Belgium, Tunisia, etc.)

Metrics

Afripédia

Do at least 3 missions to deploy Afripédia with user training

Metrics regarding the 1st deployment:

Having 50% trainers compliant with the objectives fixed in November

Deployment of Afripédia material

Personal activity as a contributor (100 edits, 5 new articles)

Organize 1 presentation of Afripedia project and 1 training session

Metrics regarding Afripédia contributors

All contributors are identified with the Afripédia userbox

Average 4 edits by contributor

Average 15% of contributors are autonomous after 1 month

80% of content is not reverted

Organize the 2nd deployment and training session

French-speaking Wikimedia community

Helping to create (or support the creation of) 2 new Francophone chapters

Organizing a francophone meeting into the Wikimedia movement

Creating at least one project together in the francophone group

Languages

Help to create at least 2 new Wikimedia projects in local languages

Organize a meeting or a project for the contributors in regional languages in France

Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?

Afripédia

Deployment : 50% of trainers are OK (in 5 countries), other did not respond about the deployment. Pages views are not very high now. We had a few problem with stats on the plug computers and not enough people who know that Wikipedia is available with offline access (partial stats).

Afripedia contributors : 100 new users, 12 autonomous (we define an editor as autonomous if he edits again outside the scope of the training sessions), 12 new articles, + 70,000 bytes of text, 226 edits: ok for the retention, no ok for the average number of edits by user, ok for content

Afripedia trainers (people trained at the 1st deployment in November) : 16 editors, 650 edits, 108 new articles, 285,000 bytes of text ==> large difference between trainers : 50% of them are very active on Wikipedia and the other 50% are not active.

February : first report with trainers, help to organize training sessions and stats report for Afripédia

March :

new content available for Afripedia (fr.wikisource [download.kiwix.org/zim/wikisource_fr_all.zim.torrent torrent]), organisation of the 2nd deployment (planned for May-early June)

organize future training session in French Indian Ocean territories to learn how to contribute in local languages

What worked and what did not?

Afripédia

For the most part, what worked is the deployment of the Afripedia project in some countries like Mali, Centrafrican Republic and Chad: trainers are very active on Wikipedia, they are able to train other people to contribute. In these countries, we have the most important part of new editors. In Mali, people has a good reflexion about the way to improve success and work to have a better organization and communication

The plug computer which allows offline access is definitively a good way to share Wikimedia content in poor-access areas. In Mali, people install offline Wikipedia in a lot of computers in country. In the universities, like in Niger, every department wants to have its Afripedia material and we must find a solution to give them (financial and material solution). IFADEM, a network for teachers formation in Africa, wants to buy around 100 Afripedia plug computer to install in primary schools in several countries of Africa

What did not work is the motivation of certain people: they were very enthusiasts during the training sessions and are not serious for the deployment of Afripedia project. They don't answer to emails and we don't know if they have organized deployment and formations. We need to have a support from the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie to coordinate reports and deployment in the different universities (in progress for the 2nd session)

We had some problems to have the right communication on universities : not enough people know that Afripedia is available and free to use. We worked with Malian people to improve communication for students and teachers

French-speaking projects and languages: no progress due to a lack of time.

We need to have a dedicated project manager to sustain these activities: because of the distance and a specific need of support, it is very complicated to be enough in touch with people and to sustain the project day after day without specific people in charge of the projects.

Host Semanticpedia, a website to coordinate work and innovation about semantic extractions of Wikimedia projects (now Semanticpedia is hosted by Inria, a research and innovation institute who is a partner of the project) [6]

Metrics

At least 3 institutional reusers of DBPedia:fr in June

Hosting Semanticpedia website in June 2013

Organize a contest to encourage datavizualisation and other apps to improve Wikipedia (for June)

Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?

Now we have 2 institutional reusers in GLAM institution who work with DBPedia:fr (beta release), the "Cité de la Musique" (national museum of Music) future website and HDA-Lab, the beta-website of "History of Arts", an institutional website hosted by French ministry of Culture to Art education [7]

Stats and evaluation are in progress to prepare hosting of Semanticpedia website by Wikimedia France

1 brainstorming with ministry of culture and INRIA researchers about new semantic projects (especially Wiktionary)

Preparation of hosting

What worked and what did not?

We had a very good visibility after the signature of the partnership in November, with the Ministry of Culture herself. But after this moment, many people from institutions were very enthusiastic about the project without well understanding what it means really. We did not have pedagogical material to explain how functions DBPedia (in French) and spent a lot of time explaining the project.

We need to prepare more communication material and pedagogical material to share with institutions and reusers

We have an active community of reusers outside cultural and institutional world many young entrepreneurs work with DBPedia:fr: we need to better respond to them and encourage them to share their work and work to improve Wikipedia with their innovations.

We did not have enough time to start the dataviz and apps contest but we will start before June to encourage work around Semanticpedia project

Jérémy Cadot (on the left) parries the flèche attack from Andrea Baldini during the final of the Challenge international de Paris (foil world cup tournament in Paris). − Event attended with a Wikimédia France accreditation

A key objective of the funding is to enable the movement as a whole to understand how to achieve shared goals better and faster. An important way of doing this is to identify lessons learned from entities who receive funds, and to share these lessons across the movement. The purpose of this section is to elicit some of these insights, which will be shared throughout the movement. Please answer the following questions in 1–2 paragraphs each.

What were your major accomplishments in the past quarter, and how did you help to achieve movement goals?

We hired in January an administrative secretary who did an important work in structuring administrative and financial issues. She is well integrated within the organisation and provides important support for the activities of the association and its members. We are helped since March by a communication intern, who helps us to strengthen our communication with volunteers, Wikimedians and donors.

Many projects were continued despite the lack of funds and capacity to hire new staff dedicated to the programs: Public Domain Day, various editing workshops for targeted audience and by local groups, training sessions with PhD students which work very well, GLAM partnerships in progress. New projects were postponed to late 2013, pending FDC round 2.

What were your major setbacks in the past quarter (e.g., programs that were not successful)?

Lack of time for Afripedia and French language projects: lot of work needed, very hard to do without dedicated staff. We also had some delay because of work with external partners: difficulties to work on the same calendar (at one time they may be able to work quickly, while we cannot ; and at another time, it might be the opposite).

Wikimedia France Research Award: we had some delays and very little visibility. We had problems with organization and participation: scarce interest came from the Wikimedia community (only very specific people were interested by this project), and our communication was insufficient

What factors (organizational, environmental) enabled your success?

Better visibility for Wikimedia France and well recognition by partners: for many years we worked to be viewed as a strong partner for culture and knowledge sharing, and to have successful partnerships with institutions. Now, when we contact a potential partner to start a project, we are often well-known as "serious partner".

Regional groups: we do our best to support any interesting project hosted by local groups. We have some strong communities in several cities in France, and try to help them experiment local projects and be autonomous for local actions. "Wikipermanences", photo parties, GLAM or educational training sessions are in progress in > 6 different cities in France, with experience sharing between groups and help from staff members.

What unanticipated challenges did you encounter and how did this affect what you were able to accomplish?

Lack of new staff for programs (because of lack of money). We focused on carrying our successful actions without starting brand new projects.

Even though it was an informed decision, it was not anticipated that we would postpone the new ED recruitement to Q2. This resulted in an increase of workload for employees and board members.

What changes might you make in executing your initiatives into the next quarter?

Increase communication for community and outside public. We have a fellow for communication since March for that. We believe that he will help make WMFR's actions be known at a larger scale, and avoid some projects being unsuccessful because of a lack of communication (e.g. Prix de la Recherche)

Staff positions will be more precisely defined in an official document, in order to have missions and objectives of each staff made clear for everyone, to have a better organization and distribution of work between the staff and to better sustain volunteers actions

Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement?[edit]

As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.

There were major changes in our plan due to the round 1 FDC gap funding. Mostly we postponed all our new projects to Q3 2013, after the FDC round 2.

We carried on successful and on-going projects, such as GLAM partnerships, education programs and Afripedia.

All new recruitments were postponed to our 2013 - 2014 fiscal year save for our administrative assistant as we believed that this profile would be key to our reorganization.

The departure of our ED represent an important change and led us to hire a HR firm to lead an internal audit of the organisation. The lessons learnt from this audit will be shared with the movement in the coming weeks.

Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

Yes

Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".